Carole Cadwalladr

Carole Cadwalladr is a British investigative journalist and features writer. She is a former Daily Telegraph journalist who is a features writer for The Observer. She has twice been shortlisted in the British Press Awards. Her first novel, The Family Tree, was shortlisted for the 2006 Commonwealth Writers' Prize, the Author's Club First Novel Award, the Waverton Good Read Award, and the Wales Book of the Year. It was also a Daily Mail Book Club pick and was dramatised as a five-part serial on BBC Radio 4. Since late 2016, The Observer has published an extensive series of articles by Cadwalladr about the "right-wing fake news ecosystem". She has also reported on the 2016 presidential campaign of Donald Trump and the Russian influence on the 2016 presidential election. The company Cambridge Analytica is pursuing legal action against The Observer for the claims made in Cadwalladr's articles, which were published in The Guardian in March 2018. For her work on these issues, Cadwalladr won the British Journalism Awards’ Technology Journalism Award in December 2017 and the Orwell Prize in June 2018.